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MPAA Rating - R

Length:
    86 Minutes

Genre:
    Music [nf]

Original Release Date:
    May 18, 2004

Director
    John Dower

Cast
    Damon Albarn, Ozwald Boateng, James Brown, Jarvis Cocker, Kevin Cummins

 
Movie Summary
Documentarian John Dower turns his attention toward the 1990s British musical movement dubbed Brit-pop in his 2003 film, Live Forever. Going back to an early 1990 concert by the now-defunct band the Stone Roses, Dower traces the roots of the Brit-pop movement as originating from Britains simultaneously discontented and disenfranchised youth, a residual outcome of the Conservative Partys decade-long stranglehold on Britains political and cultural identity. As Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher departed from her office, the 1990 Roses concert seemed to indicate a new musical movement would soon follow. Within a couple of years, the ock groups Blur and Oasis would take the lead in the new anti-establishment, almost anti-American, style of music that briefly seemed to revitalize Britains sense of musical identity. Included in Dowers film are numerous interviews with British rockers Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher, and Liam Gallagher. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide


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